Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; what... from the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

PLAYING SHOULD BE FUN! In our great eagerness to teach our children we studiously look for "educational" toys, games with built-in... lessons, books with a "message." Often these "tools" are less interesting and stimulating than the child's natural curiosity and playfulness. Play is by its very nature educational. And it should be pleasurable. When the fun goes out of play, most often so does the learning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

This play holds the season's record [for early closing], thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an ...odd coincidence it ran just five performances too many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Our graves that hide us from the searching sunAre like drawn curtains when the play is done....Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest,Only, we die in earnest--that's no jest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »